Steve Langasek from the Ubuntu Release Team announces the first and
only Beta milestone for Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) is released. He
also announces availability for Beta 2 images of flavours, including
the recently approved UbuntuKylin and Ubuntu GNOME flavours.

Sergio Meneses of the LoCo Council announces that there will not be
any 13.04 CDs or DVDs sent to the approved LoCo teams, and future CDs
and DVDs will only be available for LTS releases.

http://lococouncil.ubuntu.com/2013/04/05/about-ubuntu-13-04-cdsdvds/

== Ubuntu Cloud News ==

=== Take our new Juju survey ===

Jorge Castro asks users that have used Juju to participate in an
ongoing survey that will receive more questions as Juju grows.

http://www.jorgecastro.org/2013/04/03/take-our-new-juju-survey/

== The Planet ==

=== Michael Hall: More Ubuntu SDK Apps ===

Michael Hall introduces more Ubuntu SDK Apps and gives us an update on
the development of the Ubuntu Core Apps.

http://mhall119.com/2013/04/more-ubuntu-sdk-apps/

=== Kaj Ailomaa: Ubuntu Studio, new leadership, and future plans ===

Kaj Ailomaa talks about current leadership changes where he was
appointed as Ubuntu Studio Project lead, the work of the old Project
Lead Scott Lavender, and he also discusses future plans for Ubuntu
Studio 14.04.

Michael Hall describes how the Ubuntu Touch teams will work in the
13.10 cycle, including work items tracking in status.ubuntu.com,
setting monthly milestones, and dividing work items into teams to make
the teams work more efficiently.

http://mhall119.com/2013/04/core-apps-road-to-october/

== Other Community News ==

=== Ubuntu Touch Summary (week 13) ===

Bill Filler sums up the work from the Ubuntu Touch team for week 13
including a Qt transition, rebasing for the upcoming Raring release,
and core apps updates.

https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg01464.html

== In The Blogosphere ==

=== WUBI To Be Dropped from Ubuntu 13.04, Windows Users Lose Out ===

Joey Elijah-Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! writes about the dropping of Wubi
(Windows Ubuntu Installer) from Ubuntu 13.04 due its under-maintained
(and therefore unstable) state as well as its incompatibility with
Windows 8.

Charlie Reslinger of Penn Manor High School announces a 1:1 Laptop
program where students will receive an inexpensive laptop based on
Ubermix, a Ubuntu-based education system. Teacher and student
apprentices will also be trained for helping the students on their
laptops.

http://www.pennmanor.net/techblog/?p=1590

=== Ubuntu: Riding HP Moonshot Into Hyperscale Server Market? ===

The VAR Guy writes about the appearance of Ubuntu in the coming HP
Moonshot Server and lists out the challenges Canonical faces ahead in
its deployment as well as a source of revenue.

Joey Elijah-Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! blogs about the availability in
Canonical’s store of the Ubuntu 13.04 T-shirt with a ringtail on it.
He also notes about the store having some new items, including a
leather PU bound notebook and a 4-in-1 pen.

Michael Larabel of Phoronix writes about the next generation of Unity
and its first success in running the Mir display server and seeing it
is possible to run on future Ubuntu touch devices.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM0Mzc

=== Alienware X51 deploying with Ubuntu! ===

Sabun of Gaming On Linux writes about the announcement of Dell’s
Alienware X51 with Ubuntu with different specifications aiming at
plug-to-play gaming consumers. He also takes note that Steam on Linux
is an important factor to Alienware supporting Ubuntu.

Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore and the Podcasts met at Studio
A for the Ubuntu UK LoCo Podcast Series 6 Episode 6 (S06E06), where
Benjamin Kerensa was interviewed about OpenPhoto, some GUI love of
geeknotes.net was shared, dual-booting Ubuntu with a Nexus 7, the
Ubuntu SDK and attending Photography Farm was chatted about, and the
marvelous feedback from the listeners was gone over.

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2013/04/04/s06e06-one-hour-ubuntu/

=== Full Circle Episode 69 Audio Edition ===

The Full Circle Magazine announces their experiment of making the
magazine in an audio version and releases the audio version of Episode
69. The MP3 version is available at

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